Captain Toms daughter

I haven't seen the programme but surely she agreed to appear on it, so presumably it wouldn't come as any big surprise?

I was a bit surprised about that. I obviously haven't been following the story closely enough but I know nothing about his sex life except he must have had one as he has two daughters.

There are far worse grifters and charlatans than her walking among us. She's a chancer, of that there is no doubt, however I think the backlash is inordinate.

Good. Profiting from the public’s goodwill at a very difficult time for everyone was reprehensible.

That's an interesting perspective and probably applies to me. I found it all a bit cringe, especially the awful record, but although I can see she's dodgy I'm not all that bothered.

What is wrong with her?! Flogging self published self help books about grief?
"Best way to get over the loss of you 100 year old parent, install a miniature version of a leisure centre/swimming pool complex in your back garden linking it to the name of a charity it was in no way connected to?
Then hire a man with bulldozer to knock it down when you failed to get correct planning.
Very cathartic way to deal with bereavement."

She must be absolutely batshit to show her face on public television ever again.

I didn't expect to be reading about Captain Tom's sex life on here, or anywhere. That's for sure! 😄

I agree she is grabby (probably got it from her father) and the whole Captain Tom thing was nuts. She should just slink off now and hope everyone forgets the whole thing but maybe she needs the money?
I would say though that there was a lot of insanity during Covid and she is not the only one to take advantage of that and while she doesn't come across well she hasn't done anything really awful
She is being treated like she kicked kittens to death on live TV

I'm sure it was on all the news channels/programmes but it was certainly on GMB a lot.

She should lean into the villain thing, maybe go on Celebrity Traitors or IACGMOOH.

Ooooh I missed this. Will try to catch up later. Maybe it will be on My5 or YouTube.

Cannot STAND this woman. She has destroyed Captain Tom's memory. 😢

"Captain Tom" was her creation, entirely. Tom Moore was just a fairly boring old man who hadn't done much at all. It was the daughter, with her PR background, who created "Captain Tom" and all that went with it.
If anyone deserves to profit from it, it's her. I mean, obviously nobody deserves to profit from it, but all she has done is fleece a lot of idiots, which is all that PR people do every day of every week.

I never bought into it so I am not particularly angry. I think it's those who did, without doing the slightest bit of thinking, who are now furious with her. Although she's awful and deserves nothing, they would be better off being furious with themselves and resolved to learn from this and not act without thinking in future.

I've got no sympathy for her at all and I do not think she's not in the wrong, I just think there are more than her who need light shone on them.

It's an interesting question if quite so much hate would be shown towards a male offspring if he had done the same. I very much doubt it. Look how much 'she's the bad one, poor Captain Tom' there's been. Her husband has taken a backward step, that's the only mention he's had today. But he will have drunk, perhaps even bathed in, the champagne that that donated money bought. But he's done the decent thing so we'll let him off.

Wasn't it all over the bbc?
I know my parents in law were loving it and they're very much bbc people

I think this too .

Kate has an extremely checkered financial past that she keeps as well hidden as she can and I suspect she’d have a lot of sympathy for anyone else with one. 🙄

GMB were a big part of he frenzy, I remember Piers and Susanna being all over him not to mention the poor child who was regularly paraded with everyone informed of his adoption status and the abuse he had at the hands of his birth parents.

She could have this right by simply donating a wedge of money and working out what % of the books income it was.

I think that is very unfair, I'm not particularly a fan of Kate but but she's too professional to show her personal feelings like he did.

Honestly, people are just plain stupid for the most part. They’ll lap up any old media frenzy with barely one critical thought in their tiny minds. Perhaps 10% of the population - maybe less - have a functioning brain lol

It’s a shame that this is what people remember of the CTF and not how it lifted people’s spirits during a very difficult time,

It didn't lift my spirits in the slightest. Me and my adult DCs quietly voiced between us that there was something wrong with all of this. We had to keep that to ourselves though. And I massively blame the BBC for giving the whole thing so much airtime, every bloody morning, there they were.
There were plenty of other people doing some wonderful fundraising for the NHS , they didn't get a look in because of this family.

She's got a nerve doubling down. Yes, why doesn't she donate the £££££££ she made from the book for the 'mistake' of her father saying it was his chance to raise more money in the foreward.

I think he's great. Glad someone says it as it is and stopped pussyfooting around the issues. Can imagine if it was Kate just there doing the interview. She'd be declaring her undying love for her 🤮😬🙄

Absolutely. My grandad made it to a similar age, but the thought of dragging him on a long haul flight at all, nevermind during covid would have been absolutely ludicrous.

The whole "Captain Tom" thing was the DD's idea apparently - it taps in to the nation's nostalgia for the war (particularly as we'd just had the 75th anniversary of VE Day in 2020). The public loves a little old man in a suit and medals. Yes, the bloke was a veteran but so was pretty much everyone else's grandad if they were that generation! He left the army after the war so it's not even though he spent a whole career in the military...

That isn't very professional though is it. I think he's very pompous.